Hudik, Marek - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 18 (2011) 2, pp. 147-162
The paper criticises psychologism, i.e. the idea that economics is a science of behaviour or that it must be rooted in such a science. The argument is based on Hayek and Popper's thesis that economics studies spontaneous order. First, it is argued that if economics is to retain its traditional...